• Embers

    Fill your eyes

    Taking place of tears

    Radiating outward

    Instead of flowing freely



    Helical swirls

    Of sparking firelight

    Shadows leap away at the brilliance

    A dance on edge

    Spiraling



    Your powerful gaze

    Sweeping over the accusing crowd

    Dominance shining through your eyes

    Fluid flames pouring over the bodies

    Burning away human indecencies



    Subjecting each individual

    To the horrifying beauty

    Innocence in the form of light

    Painting the black sky

    With images of acceptance



    The same flames

    Meant for your death

    Leaping in a cynical ballet

    Across the eyes

    Of unmatched beauty



    The gaze firmly holds

    The attention of the very same people

    Who demanded you burn

    Some weep as the flames intensify

    Fire retaliating against the wind



    Sparks snapping away

    Fireflies amidst the absolute night

    Flames now licking at your shoulders

    What was once purest beauty

    Is now a scene of complete terror



    Fire now jumping in strides

    Galloping across your body

    Stampeding across your bare flesh

    Searing away memories of comfort

    Of home



    Smoke

    Forming fiendish hands

    Strangling the life out of you

    Coughing, heaving

    Your lungs try to revolt



    Flames tearing holes in your very essence

    Gliding smoothly across what was once a human being

    You look out once more

    Eyes of fire pleading for the smallest mercy

    Everyone sees, No one helps



    Burned at the stake